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    We saw an endless cycle

    We saw an endless cycle

    (November 27, 2024 - April 17, 2025)

    Taking its title from a poem by artist Seher Shah, ‘We saw an endless cycle’ speaks to the ways in which artists bear witness to the city. The exhibition brings together works by artists whose practices closely engage with the city through intimate gestures, often in the form of movements like walking and crawling; acts of recording and reinterpretation through photographing, painting, drawing, writing, sculpting and practices of counter mapping. These gestures find their echoes across decades and geographies. Together, they reflect a recurring impulse to contend with the dynamism, contradictions, and politics of the urban sphere through intimate, often repetitive, and at times disruptive action.

    Curated by Art Jameel’s Rotana Shaker, the exhibition features artworks and archival materials including works from the Art Jameel Collection, new commissions and loans.

    NOW OPEN | The Art Jameel Shop at Hayy Jameel

    The Art Jameel Shop is home for all that’s current in contemporary art, design, architecture and culture. It is a homegrown endeavour — conceived, curated and managed entirely by the Art Jameel in-house team.

     

    With its second branch located by the Hayy Jameel welcome desk, the Art Jameel Shop aims to supporting artists and creative communities by offering publications, prints and design products, many of which are commissioned in conjunction with our exhibitions.

     

    Shop here. Support art everywhere.

     

    Hayy Residents | Aysh Academy & La Boutique Café

    Aysh Academy is a local baking institute founded with love by Sumaia Showail, who brings a decade of experience as a pastry chef trained by world-renowned leaders in artisan bread and pastry education.

    Created with the underlying objective to modernise the traditional approach to baking, Aysh Academy is a learning environment that encourages baking enthusiasts to discover the textures, flavours, and aromas of freshly baked artisan bread, viennoiserie, pastry and more.

    Hayy Cinema

    Hayy Cinema expands the definition of cinema as a meeting point to watch, learn, exchange, discover and research; the complex includes a 168-seat theatre, a 30-seat community screening room, a multimedia library and an educational exhibition space. Hayy Cinema’s year-round programming includes Saudi, Arab and international features, shorts and documentaries and is set to host flagship film festivals for all – from children through to country- and genre-specific audiences.

    Hayy Residents | Fennec

    Fennec is the first-ever community theatre in Saudi to develop local talents and content by creating pioneer artistic communities. Their vision is to support creative talents and promote the creation of content and performances that are exceptional locally and globally.

    With community at their core, Fennec embraces a mission to attract art and culture audiences by providing world-class content through investing, developing, and working with Saudi talent.